a priori vs suppositious

a priori

adj
  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

suppositious

adj
  • Hypothetical, based on supposition; suppositional. 

  • Imaginary; fictitious, pretended to exist. 

  • Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit; fake; supposititious. 

How often have the words a priori and suppositious occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )